Woulda coulda shouda? Well you mugs voted for them didn't ya! Even after they rammed the still hated G.S.T down our collective protesting necks!

Because as Honest as the day is long, John Howard said, we needed to make good the lost revenue, lost when 95% of corporate Australia, offshored their Business operations and their company tax liabilities. Quote, unquote.

What is it about fools that never learn!?
Alan B.

Personally my perception on Howard is that he was simply flatulence that represented what once was, but there you are, the voting public went with him, so what does that say for the masses.
On the other hand who were the gullible masses to vote for, who was giving away freebies so as to entice the feeble minded and who was offering a 'keep Australia safe' platform.
The people in 'the know' are aware who Howard was and is...self serving who represented the like minded.

A green mindset Gary?

Well in order to have a mindset? First your need a mind, to replace the paradoxically, empty echo chamber that merely masquerades as a mind, at the moment, in green circles?

Circles being the operative word, as they fly in ever decreasing circles to follow the Dodo and the disastrous Democrats, to disappear, right up their own fundamental orifice!

"Poof" the tragic drag-on, lived by the see?
In a land called, own it Senator Lee!
Alan B.

Yep, climate change is real. Scientists at the Russian Vostok station in Antarctica have been assiduously studying changes in the O-18 concentration over at least 420 thousand years by drilling into the ice and analysing for the O-18 isotope related to depth in the ice.

A graph showing the variation in climate over that period can be found at http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/02/08/420000-years-of-data-suggestss-global-warming-is-not-man-made/.

Scroll down to the graph - the blue line shows how atmospheric temperature has varied. Following it from right to left shows elapsed time leading to the present day on the far left.

The green line shows the variation in atmospheric CO2 caused by the effect of temperature change on CO2 solubility in the ocean.

The red line shows dust thrown up by the drying of the land surface.

Note the steep global warming over the past 20 thousand or so years, and how the pattern of cooling followed by warming repeats itself every 120 thousand years or so.

That, folks, shows us at the top of a steep global warming period over the last 20 thousand years.

Tough bikkie, Greenies who want to blame humanity's effrontery in developing industry and emitting CO2. But there there - you still have the popular AGW religion and the IPCC "researcher" head count on your side.